Sunshine tidings terminal impossible?

[Legomanaic5]

I found all the dud removals and i was left with:
taunt
saved
mouth
bases
meant
happy
stays
swamp
lords
setup

now from here i started by picking setup which gave me a likeliness of 0

which means that none of the letters s,e,t,u,p will be in the correct answer, yet that takes out all of the possibilities.

I've been trying to get this terminal for a good 20 mins now and normaly i can get them on the first try so I don't understand why i keep ending up with eliminating all my possibilities. then i tried to just remove all the duds again and then just keep picking all on one side eventually i'd get the right one so i did this for like 5 times and still locked, is this suposed to be impossible?

[Rüdiger J Simpson]

now from here i started by picking setup which gave me a likeliness of 0

which means that none of the letters s,e,t,u,p will be in the correct answer, yet that takes out all of the possibilities

no, the letters can be in there, just not on the same spot as in setup.
so if "setup" has 0 hits you start excluding with the first letter S. it therefore cannot be Swamp, Stays, Saved. then you take the next letter E as second and exclude "mEant" etc.

"lords" for example is possible if "setup" has 0 hits.

[Simon]

Also the word puzzles aren't unique to any terminal. They're randomized each time you open a terminal, and the correct answer will be different each time too.

[SeriousCCIE]

yeah if you exit and go back in you'll get it in two or three different hack attemps. just exit the third attempt and open it up again before you lock it on a fourth attempt.

If you have INT boosting gear, wear that too, it helps.

[Akari_Enderwolf]

it's like the classic tabletop game, mastermind, where you are guessing the correct sequence, the difference is that you get options presented to you and are only told how many letters are in the correct location in the word, but not which letters/location.

[Simon]

Btw, the way I do it is guess (intelligently) until there's only 1 try left, then I go search for the tag that resets the number of tries you get.

[caelancuzz]

as soon as i read this i got brin or someshit

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Rüdiger J Simpson:

now from here i started by picking setup which gave me a likeliness of 0

which means that none of the letters s,e,t,u,p will be in the correct answer, yet that takes out all of the possibilities

no, the letters can be in there, just not on the same spot as in setup.
so if "setup" has 0 hits you start excluding with the first letter S. it therefore cannot be Swamp, Stays, Saved. then you take the next letter E as second and exclude "mEant" etc.

"lords" for example is possible if "setup" has 0 hits.

Yep. Using the above eliminators, you're left with:
taunt
mouth
bases
happy
lords

Guessing "taunt" will either be correct, or give you a 1 or a 0. If a 1, then your next guesses are "bases" or, if necessary, "happy". If taunt is a 0, either "mouth" or "lords" will be right or give you a 1, in which case guess the other next. Longest path, assuming you're guessing top to bottom, is "happy" in four guesses.

[indy-anna]

Originally posted by commend me caelancuzz:

as soon as i read this i got brin or someshit

That's some feat, transporting yourself 5 years from the past into the present. So tell me, does that make Necromancers feel more alive or something?

[xybolt]

Originally posted by commend me caelancuzz:

as soon as i read this i got brin or someshit

It happens that people is necro'ing a thread -of which is frowned upon - by placing a post that has at least some additional value to the thread. Yours has 0 of it. You have dug up a thread from 2015 with a worthless comment. Congratz. An A+ for effort.

[Zotliatlicor]

Something that actually helps in terminal hacking: Start at the bottom word on page two. And go up until you have 1 left try. Then take away word by brackets also from the bottom of page two and upwards.

[Vyvyvn]

Don't forget hitting all the () [] {} inclusions too.